This is an analysis of the poem The Court Of Penance that begins with:
Behold the Court of Penance. Four gaunt walls
Shutting out all things but the upper heaven.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbaba cdcccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010111 10111101010 1111110011 01010001010 111110010010 1111111100 10011101010 1001000111 1011010101 0101101101 1100111011 0111111100 101010011101 1011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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